[CTVotersCount applauds David Bedell for his extensive efforts in checking results and encourage officials to correct the vote counts reported as official by the Secretary of the State and for his posting his report here. It is important that all votes be accurately reported for third parties because that is the basis for ballot access in future elections.]
The SOTS [Secretary of the State’s] reporting of election results appears to have improved since 2008. That year, many votes on the Working Families Party line went unreported or were lumped in with the counts on the Democratic line.
This year, after some initial confusion over some towns (e.g., East Windsor), the WFP results are now on the SOTS website; at least, there are no zeros in the WFP column. However, the SOTS or the town officials seem to have overlooked some votes for Independent gubernatorial candidate Tom Marsh: in Bozrah and Shelton, the SOTS reports 0 votes while the Hartford Courant reports 27 and 198 respectively.
[Some examples sent David sent earlier – Editor]
Shelton Votes For Governor
There appears to be an error in the election results for Governor published by the SOTS. For the town of Shelton, SOTS reports 0 votes for Tom Marsh (Independent). But the Shelton Town Clerk reports 198 votes for Marsh (see email pasted below):
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> From: m.domorod@cityofshelton.org
> To: dbedellgreen@hotmail.com
> Subject: RE: omitted election results for Shelton
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:22:53 -0500
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> Mr. Bedell,
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> Tom Marsh received the following votes in the City of Shelton:
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> Districts 1 & 2 = 59 votes; Districts 3,4,5 & 6= 139 votes ; total of 198
> votes
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> Margaret Domorod
> City/Town Clerk
Darien Votes for Comptroller
There appears to be an error in the election results for Comptroller published by the SOTS. For the town of Darien, SOTS reports 0 votes for Joshua Katz (Libertarian) and 0 votes for Hugh Dolan (Independent). But the Darien Town Clerk reports 66 votes for Joshua Katz and 70 votes for Hugh Dolan (see email pasted below):
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> From: DRajczewski@darienct.gov
> To: dbedellgreen@hotmail.com
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:50:48 -0500
> Subject: RE: omitted election results for Darien
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> Mr. Katz received 66 votes and Mr. Dolan received 70 votes.
